Improvement in rolling-pins



PATENT OFFICE l WILLIAM THOMAS, OF HLNGHAM, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN ROLLING-PINS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 119,062, dated September 19, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM THOMAS, of Hin gham, in the county of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts, have made an invention of a new and useful Improvement in Culinary Rolling-Pins 5 and do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, due reference being had to the accompanying drawing making part of this speciiication, and in which Figure l is an elevation, and Fig. 2 a section of an implement embodying my invention.

Culinary rolling-pins have been very generally composed of wood, both on account of the low cost of such 'material and the supposed necessity that these articles should be as light as possible. Latterly, however, marble or other fnegrained stone has been employed from which to produce these pins on account of its durability, and the fact that its weight is supposed to relieve much ofthe labor incident to the use of the wooden pin, which latter necessitates a considerable downward pressure upon the dough. A great objection to the marble pin has been found to consist in its high cost, which places it beyond the reach of the mass of people; and the purpose of my invention is to produce a rolling-pin which shall possess the merits of the stone pin, and which may be sold at a oost little exceeding that of a wooden pin.

To this end my invention consists in forming the body of a rolling-pin of a concrete or composition, or artificial stone, so called, which I have found admirably adapted to the purpose, as it is of finer texture and stronger than native stone; is susceptible of receiving and retaining a fine polish to which dough will not adhere, and which presents at all times a neat and clean appearance. In addition to the above advantages my invention, as before premised, may be sold at a cost very little, if any, exceeding that of a wooden pin.

The accompanying drawing represents atA the body of my piu, which is composed of a suitable concrete or composite material, which produces an artificial stone. Extending radially through the cylinder A will be seen a metallic rod, B, whose extremities project beyond the ends of the pin, and carry suitable handles C O by which the pin may be revolved. These handles, however, are not a necessity, as many pins are made without them.

I claim- As a new article of manufacture, a rolling-pin, the body of which is composed of concrete, composition, or artificial stone, substantially as herein shown and described.

` WILLIAM THOMAS.

Witnesses:

OTIs H. WEED, Jr., W. H. HAMILTON. 

